site: reviews — ScrollPods, Vulcain Cricket, Lennie Gwyther statue (graduate from finds)

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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ source: "Atlas Obscura"
 topics: [travel-and-places, history-and-archives]
 tags: [australia, statue, history]
 description: "A bronze statue in Leongatha, Victoria, commemorating the nine-year-old who rode his pony roughly 600 miles to Sydney in 1932 to see the Harbour Bridge open."
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 In 1932, nine-year-old Lennie Gwyther had just spent months running the family farm alone while his father recovered from a broken leg. As a reward, he rode his pony Ginger Mick some 600 miles from Leongatha, Victoria, to Sydney to watch the Harbour Bridge open — and became a national celebrity along the way. A bronze statue of the pair now stands in his hometown.
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ source: "Six Colors"
 topics: [macos-apps, productivity]
 tags: [menu-bar, airpods, accessibility, free]
 description: "A free menu-bar utility that reads the head-motion sensors in AirPods (3rd gen and later), AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, or Beats Fit Pro, so a small head tilt scrolls the focused window."
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 ScrollPods reads the head-motion sensors already sitting inside 3rd-generation AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, and Beats Fit Pro, and turns a small tilt of your head into a scroll. Sensitivity and calibration are adjustable, and it can scroll vertically or horizontally depending on which way you tilt. It lives quietly in the menu bar, needs no account, and is free.
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 topics: [carry-and-wear, history-and-archives]
 tags: [watch, mechanical, titanium, alarm]
 description: "A hand-wound Vulcain Cricket rebuilt in Grade 5 titanium, case and movement both, limited to about 100 pieces."
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 The Cricket is Vulcain's hand-wound mechanical watch with an actual mechanical alarm — a striking mechanism, not a vibration — and it earned the nickname "President's Watch" after Truman and a long line of U.S. presidents wore one. This edition rebuilds the 39mm case and the movement's structural components in Grade 5 titanium, including the mainplate and bridges, limited to about 100 pieces starting near $7,670. Heritage worth noting, not an endorsement.